LA MOBILISATION DES ÉTUDIANTS BOSNIAQUES DE NOVI PAZAR DANS LE MOUVEMENT DE CONTESTATION EN SERBIE (2024 – 2025) : CONSTRUIRE LE VIVRE-ENSEMBLE AU-DELÀ DES CLIVAGES IDENTITAIRES
THE MOBILIZATION OF BOSNIAK STUDENTS FROM NOVI PAZAR IN THE SERBIAN PROTEST MOVEMENT (2024–2025): BUILDING COEXISTENCE BEYOND IDENTITY DIVIDES
Author(s): Ana OtasevicSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, History, Education, Psychology, Civil Society, Sociology, Local History / Microhistory, Social history, Recent History (1900 till today), Security and defense, State/Government and Education, Social psychology and group interaction, Crowd Psychology: Mass phenomena and political interactions, Studies in violence and power, Present Times (2010 - today), Post-Communist Transformation, EU-Approach / EU-Accession / EU-Development, Sociology of Politics, Globalization, Corruption - Transparency - Anti-Corruption
Published by: Институт за балканистика с Център по тракология - Българска академия на науките
Keywords: student protests; anti-corruption movement; Novi Pazar; Serbia; contentious politics; vivre-ensemble;
Summary/Abstract: This article examines the participation of students from Novi Pazar—the political and cultural centre of the Bosniak community in Serbia—in the nationwide anti-corruption student movement. Marked by ethnic, religious, and identity divisions, as well as by the close intertwining of party networks and religious institutions, Novi Pazar provides a particularly relevant setting for examining living together (vivre-ensemble) in a society shaped by the legacy of the Yugoslav conflicts. Drawing on fieldwork and an analysis of the processes of collective identity formation and the movement’s repertoire of contention, the article explores how the mobilisation fostered new forms of cooperation between Bosniaks and Serbs, opening a space in which social, religious, and cultural diversity could be articulated through collective civic action. It argues that the movement temporarily reconfigured symbolic boundaries and contributed to rethinking the relationship between citizenship, identity, and democratic participation.
Journal: Études balkaniques
- Issue Year: 2026
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 625-652
- Page Count: 28
- Language: French
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